Precision medicine in non-small cell lung cancer: Current applications and future directions

SR Yang, AM Schultheis, H Yu, D Mandelker… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Advances in biomarkers, targeted therapies, and immuno-oncology have transformed the
clinical management of patients with advanced NSCLC. For oncogene-driven tumors, there …

The emerging complexity of gene fusions in cancer

F Mertens, B Johansson, T Fioretos… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Structural chromosome rearrangements may result in the exchange of coding or regulatory
DNA sequences between genes. Many such gene fusions are strong driver mutations in …

[HTML][HTML] Brigatinib combined with anti-EGFR antibody overcomes osimertinib resistance in EGFR-mutated non-small-cell lung cancer

K Uchibori, N Inase, M Araki, M Kamada, S Sato… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Osimertinib has been demonstrated to overcome the epidermal growth factor receptor
(EGFR)-T790M, the most relevant acquired resistance to first-generation EGFR–tyrosine …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical and translational implications of RET rearrangements in non–small cell lung cancer

R Ferrara, N Auger, E Auclin, B Besse - Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 2018 - Elsevier
Since the discovery in 2012 of rearranged during transfection proto-oncogene gene (RET)
rearrangements in NSCLC, at least 12 different fusion variants have been identified, with …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond ALK-RET, ROS1 and other oncogene fusions in lung cancer

T Kohno, T Nakaoku, K Tsuta… - … lung cancer research, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Fusions of the RET and ROS1 protein tyrosine kinase oncogenes with several partner genes
were recently identified as new targetable genetic aberrations in cases of non-small cell …

Gene aberrations for precision medicine against lung adenocarcinoma

M Saito, K Shiraishi, H Kunitoh, S Takenoshita… - Cancer …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Lung adenocarcinoma (LADC), the most frequent histological type of lung cancer, is often
triggered by an aberration in a driver oncogene in tumor cells. Examples of such aberrations …

[HTML][HTML] Vepafestinib is a pharmacologically advanced RET-selective inhibitor with high CNS penetration and inhibitory activity against RET solvent front mutations

I Miyazaki, I Odintsov, K Ishida, AJW Lui, M Kato… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
RET receptor tyrosine kinase is activated in various cancers (lung, thyroid, colon and
pancreatic, among others) through oncogenic fusions or gain-of-function single-nucleotide …

[HTML][HTML] A new era of long-read sequencing for cancer genomics

Y Sakamoto, S Sereewattanawoot… - Journal of human genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is a disease largely caused by genomic aberrations. Utilizing many rapidly emerging
sequencing technologies, researchers have studied cancer genomes to understand the …

Druggable oncogene fusions in invasive mucinous lung adenocarcinoma

T Nakaoku, K Tsuta, H Ichikawa, K Shiraishi… - Clinical cancer …, 2014 - AACR
Purpose: To identify druggable oncogenic fusions in invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma
(IMA) of the lung, a malignant type of lung adenocarcinoma in which KRAS mutations …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic features of pulmonary adenocarcinoma presenting with ground-glass nodules: the differences between nodules with and without growth

Y Kobayashi, T Mitsudomi, Y Sakao, Y Yatabe - Annals of Oncology, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Pulmonary ground-glass nodules (GGNs) include both malignant and benign
lesions. Some GGNs become larger, whereas others remain unchanged for years. We have …